Am I alone?? Perimenopause so bad i've been hospitalized.

I am 6 years into menopause at 50 years old. I can barely eat, can't walk unaided, have migraines so bad I can't leave the house. I wake up in the morning afraid to open my eyes because sometimes I am blind, sometimes everything is blue for hours. My life as it was is over and I don't like this new one at all. Thankfully my doctors get it. They support me as best they can. My neurologist says I have functional neurological disorder from the stress put on my body for so long.

Please try deep breathing. you can search for "pranayama" on youtube for several tutorials. it takes time, but will surely help in some way with anxiety and overall feeling of wellbeing. if you can include some walking and basic yoga poses, that will further help in many ways. Above all, eating healthy home cooked food and drinking plenty of water and getting adequate rest. all this does not cost money but only needs your time. if u do this persistently, there is no doubt in seeing some kind of progress in mental and physical health.

I would say, just give it a sincere attempt for 3 months. you can thank me later! :p

I am 47, in peri and been thru many symptoms. i have done the above and its helped me a lot. hence my suggestions. i still get them on some days, but, nothing that i cannot manage.

I love you ladies! I'm a feeling like hell today today. I already had bad PTSD from childhood and I thought it was finally gone in my mid 30s but now peri has made it return with a vengance. Afraid to leave home, dissociation. And yesterday I started having heart palpitations, dizziness and bad stomach upset. I'm afraid to eat today, trying a salad. I already know I have gallstones and previously had appendicitis at 40 so always terrified of that as they left it in. And I eat SUPER healthy, paleo and gluten-free since I was 18!!! When no one used the words. I am 47 now and in the US there is no menopause or maternity leave. I don't know how we do it ladies, but we need to speak up and get doctors to take the severity of peri and menopause SERIOUSLY and design treatments that truly work, even if it means indefinitely delaying the change. We don't need to necessarily be able to have children like men in their 70s, just to function and feel and look well.

Oh you poor thing, I COMPLETELY empathise with you, this menopause nightmare gives me the bloody pip too!

The last four years have been truly horrid, nearly every part of my body has been affected by some pain or weirdness....to the point you do begin to think you are going crazy or that there is something seriously wrong! I have seen my doctor on a regular basis because of so many different symptoms, so much so he greets me like an old friend now! unreal!...as I hardly ever went to a doc before menopause took over my body! He is a lovely doc and is trying to help me but I am embarrassed and I apologise every time saying "I'm back because....." something else is wrong!!!

My latest issues are constant wanting to wee, uncomfortable feeling & pressure in my lower abdomen, like its the start of a urine infection but its not as I got it checked! Also dizziness, unsteadiness, pins & needles up and down my left arm and weird numbness sensation all on my left side plus pain in my left foot which runs up my lower leg with numbness on top of my big toe!! Feel totally knackered in the morning and have constant post nasal drip!!!

I have resisted HRT but gave in the end of last year and was put on Duavive, which helped my asthma/post nasal drip/constant coughing and throat issues, and the hot flushes vanished almost immediately! but after a while I began to feel pressure building up in my hands (horrible) and also I found out it was made from horse pee!!!(poor horses!) so I stopped ....but after a few weeks all my symptoms came back. I am just starting on Body Identical HRT and hoping this will help me, fingers crossed.

Best wishes to you Shylee, you are not alone on this menopause journey, I hope it all passes soon for us xx

I'm so sorry you have been having it so tough. I have ms and have for years. .Just a few thoughts. Did they give you contrast dye in your MRI scan. They used double contrast on mine and it showed up my small lesions when symptoms first started. They then did a spinal tap and checked my fluid for what I think was called bands of something. I had vision loss optic nerve damage and pupil was very dilated during my earliest attack. This Is pretty common. I also had a sensation when I bent my chin forward to unbuckle my seat belt that felt like sudden electricity or tingling running all the way down my spine. there is a name for it it is Lehtermans syndrome but I dont think I spelled it correctly. That is a sign of ms. I'm not saying you have ms . I am just letting you know the format the dr used to diagnose me. Usually with ms you will have some pins and needles symptoms or numbing in hands , fingers feet or toes. This can last forever or go away depending on the type of Ms or severity of an exacerbation. . You can go completely numb anywhere in your body and your vision can be affected. There is treatment during an exacerbation by use of steroids in a hospital setting. There are many other symptoms of ms but those seem to be the most typical ones I hear of and have had starting out with it . Its good they didn't diagnose you with ms because if you had enough damage caused from if it it would have probably showed up on an MRI regardless. I am so sorry you are having such a tough time. You are not alone. I too feel very alone and I feel peri is worsening my ms the past few months and it is really hard to cope with . Dr wants me to go up on my antidepressant but I dont want to as it is effexor and will be very hard to taper down or come off of . I went from 150 to 75 mg 3 yrs ago and it put me in bed for a month with constant anxiety attacks and more. I had a nervous breakdown of sorts and it took me a full year to begin to be able to function again symptom free. Thankfully I could recover. 1 although I thought and felt for a solid month like I was dying. . I couldn't get out of bed list 15 pnds and it was all caused by trying to go down on this medicine. So going back up is not happening . I have been too afraid to take more or less of it since. and going through peri I really need something more or soon will . Maybe hormones will help but please take it from my own experience and many others who say dont try effexor for help thru peri or for anyother reason, lol . Good luck to you and hang in there . I hope you can start to do small things to feel better like maybe reading or drawing or exercising. I know its tough when you feel bad to do things to nurture yourself or relax. But little things can really help us cope and they add up to big things and bigger smiles. Bless you and hang in there.